ARITHMETIC.

The Board of Examiners.

Every result must be reduced to its simplest form. The whole of the working of a question must be sent in as part of the answer.

1. Write down in words the quotient and remainder obtained by dividing three billion nine hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty-three million five hundred and ten thousand four hundred and sixteen by ninety-three million six hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred and eighty-five.

4. Find the number of yards in the side of a square field whose area is 27 acres 1 rood 20 perches

1 sq. yard.

5. Find by Practice the value of 27 acres 1 rood 121 sq. yards at £21 per acre.

6. Find the number of cubic inches contained in a rainfall of two inches upon the field in the last question.

7. A marksman firing at a range of 1,000 yard hears the bullet strike the range 53 seconds afte the discharge of his rifle. If sound travel a 1,125 feet per second find the velocity of th bullet in feet per second.

8. Find the amount of £386 in 3 years at 6 per cent per annum compound interest.

9. The Age of Wednesday, Oct. 31st, is numbered 10512. What will be the number of the issue of Dec. 31st, no issue of the paper being published on Sundays and Christmas day.

10. Explain, with the reason for each step, the process of simple subtraction.

GEOGRAPHY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Draw a map of Asia. Mark on it the Tropic of Cancer, the Arctic Circle, 80° of Longitude E., the Straits of Babel Mandeb, Behring Straits, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Kara Sea, Cape Comorin, the Caucasus, the Hindoo Koosh, Tonquin, Corea, Singapore, Hong-kong; and the following rivers-Obi, Euphrates, Sir Daria, Amoor, Indus, Godavery.

Do not insert a single name except those for which you are asked.

The names are to be given on the map, not in a separate list.

N.B.-The map must be attempted.

2. Define Geography. What is the difference between Physical Geography and Political Geography? Are there other subdivisions of Geography?

3. What is meant by Latitude and by Isotherm? How is it that they do not coincide on maps? What places have the same latitude as London and Sydney?

4.

"Midsummer midnight Norway sun

Set into sunrise."

Comment upon this expression, and explain fully the phenomenon.

5. Explain the geographical terms-erosion, monsoon, moraine, neap-tides, snow-line, Artesian well.

6. What are the faults of Australia as a country for the habitation of man and for the cultivation of the soil?

7. What are the causes likely to make a town grow larger?

8. Where are the Alhambra, the Bosporus, the Campagna, the Grisons, the Hague, the Lothians? What is each?

9. Where would you go to see porcelain manufactures, orange groves, great treasures of art?

What town is the centre of the German book trade? What of the English beer-trade Where do men travel in a gondola, a jinriksha a palanquin, or a reindeer-sledge respectively Whence do we get mustard, coffee, quinine?

The answers to these questions may ofte include more places than one.

10. Which is the highest mountain in the world, th longest river, the largest fresh-water lake, th town at greatest elevation, the most southern town with more than 10,000 inhabitants, the smallest county in England, the most populous town in Scotland, the most western county in England, the most western province in France?

11. Where are the following towns:-Baltimore, Havana, Kurrachee, Mandalay, Novgorod, Palermo, Philadelphia, Rotterdam, Salonica, Turin ? Write a full account of two of these.

12. On what rivers are the following Australasian towns:-Albury, Bourke, Christchurch, Hobart, Horsham, Newcastle, Perth, Wagga, Wentworth?

13. Write an account of any two of the following:Alsace-Lorraine ;

The Bermudas;

The Levant;

The Valley of the Thames;

The West Coast Sounds in New Zealand.

14. Write a geographical account of New Guinea.

ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY.

The Board of Examiners.

N.B.-Candidates are instructed NOT to answer more than SIX questions.

1. What do you understand by the terms acid oxide and basic oxide? Explain fully, with aid of examples.

2. Describe the substance produced by the combination of ammonia and hydrogen chloride. In what proportion by volume do these gases combine?

3. Explain the meaning of the phrase purified by sublimation. What non-metallic element do you know of that is usually purified by this process? 4. Explain and illustrate the law of multiple proportions.

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5. Calculate the percentage composition of pureanhydrous sodium carbonate (Given: Na C = 12, 0 = 16).

6. What is a sulphide? Describe the properties and method of preparing any one with which you are acquainted?

7. Why should bromine and iodine be classed with chlorine in one natural group of elements?

8. How many oxides of phosphorus do you know of? How are they prepared? What compounds do they form when treated with water?